Let me break this down for ya. Your making this harder on yourself than it really is! What you've done, from what I can tell by what you've told us.. is you've dried the buds too quickly..
BUT! You have ALSO, dried the buds too much. In other words, if they're that crispy as you say they are.. what you've done basically is you've over-dried them.. therefore you've sucked out
ALL the water content of the bud.. which isn't what you want... as you now know.
What you want to do, is let the buds just air dry until the outer part of the buds are dry and the stem
BENDS... not BREAK... one the buds have air dried to those specifications.. you then need to slow the drying process down. "How does one do this you might ask..?"
It's simple. Go and get yourself some mason jars.. put the buds inside the mason jars. What your doing now.. is what they call "Curing" the buds.. but in reality.. all curing is.. is slowing down the "drying process" down to a very slow speed. What this does.. is it gives the buds time to convert all the non psychoactive ingredients.. into psychoactive (what we wan
t!) ingredients (what gets you high
). Also, during the curing process.. any remaining trace elements of any Chlorophyll that may still be inside the buds (gets rid of any chlorophyll that didn't evaporate during the "air drying" process
).
Chlorophyll is the main ingredient that is responsible for giving that classic but yet famous "hay" or "cut grass" smell to the buds. You don't really
have to cure your buds.. you could just simply let them air dry.. but being able to control the speed of the drying process of the buds.. is what you want. This way you have control of the moisture content in the buds. Basically, when your curing (slowing down the drying process).. your leaving the lid of the mason jar (curing jar) closed for a number of hours.. to let the remaining moisture of the buds evaporate. Once you've had the jar lid closed with the buds in the jar for a good 12 hours.. its then time to "burp" the jar. Burping just consists of opening the lid of the jar every 12 hours.. to let the built up moisture content on the buds.. evaporate and dry again. Once the buds are back to a moisture content of like how they were after you had air dried them.. its time to put the lid back on again... and wait another 12 hours before burping the jars again (burp them).. let the buds air dry again down to just like they were after they were air dried.. and do it again. Just keep repeating this process... until your happy with them.
Also, if I may add this bit of information for everyone too.. then I promise I'll shut up. LMAO.
Anyhow, during the curing process... as you have the lids on the jars closed for 12 hours.. the moisture from inside the buds.. will slowly (during that 12 hour period) start to evaporate.. but since its coming from the inside of the middle of the bud (the stem mainly).. as it evaporates from the middle.. the moisture will end up on the outer edges of the bud.. therefore rehydrating the bud basically. This is also taking out all the nasty Chlorophyll that is trapped in the middle of the stem and bud as well.. so curing is very important if you want a VERY smooth; potent; tasty harvest.
Anyhow, I'm sure some of you will understand what I have just explained. For those of you that don't.. well.. try Google.
peace..
have a good weekend ppl.. FINALLY HOME!
